Carrier Locator: Interstate Service Providers

Carrier Locator:

Interstate Service Providers

November 1997

Jim Lande

Katie Rangos

Industry Analysis Division

Common Carrier Bureau

Federal Communications Commission

Washington, DC 20554

This report is available for reference in the Common Carrier Bureau's Public Reference Room, 2000 M Street,

N.W. Washington DC, Room 575. Copies may be purchased by calling International Transcription Service,

Inc. at (202) 857-3800. The report can also be downloaded [file name LOCAT-97.ZIP] from the FCC-State

Link internet site at on the World Wide Web. The report can also be downloaded

from the FCC-State Link computer bulletin board system at (202) 418-0241.

Carrier Locator: Interstate Service Providers

Contents

Introduction

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Table 1:

Number of Carriers Filing 1997 TRS Fund Worksheets

by Type of Carrier and Type of Revenue

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Table 2:

Telecommunications Common Carriers:

Carriers that filed a 1997 TRS Fund Worksheet

or a September 1997 Universal Service Worksheet,

with address and customer contact number

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Table 3:

Telecommunications Common Carriers:

Listing of carriers sorted by carrier type, showing

types of revenue reported for 1996

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Competitive Access Providers (CAPs) and

Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs)

65

Cellular and Personal Communications Services (PCS)

Carriers

68

Interexchange Carriers (IXCs)

83

Local Exchange Carriers (LECs)

86

Paging and Other Mobile Service Carriers

111

Operator Service Providers (OSPs)

118

Other Toll Service Providers

119

Pay Telephone Providers

120

Pre-paid Calling Card Providers

129

Toll Resellers

130

Table 4:

Carriers that are not expected to file in the

future using the same TRS ID because of merger,

reorganization, name change, or leaving the business

137

Table 5:

Carriers that filed a 1995 or 1996 TRS Fund worksheet

and that are unaccounted for in 1997

141

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Introduction

This report lists 3,832 companies that provided interstate telecommunications service

as of June 30, 1997. For each carrier, this report shows an address, a telephone number and

the types of services that the carrier provided. This report is used by customers and other

carriers to identify and locate sources of telecommunications service, by equipment vendors

to identify potential customers, and by the FCC for various regulatory purposes.

This report was compiled from two primary sources: 1997 Telecommunications

Relay Service (TRS) Fund worksheets and September 1997 Universal Service Fund (USF)

worksheets. The tables reflect database information extracted by the TRS and interim USF

administrators in early October. Carriers that filed after that time or that filed incomplete

information may not be shown in the lists of current interstate service providers.

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) requires all providers of

interstate telecommunications service to share in the costs of financing interstate TRS. TRS

is a telephone transmission service that allows people with hearing or speech impairments

to use the telephone. The FCC has established a TRS Fund and directed the National

Exchange Carrier Association (NECA) to serve as the Administrator. Each carrier that

provides interstate service must file an annual TRS Fund worksheet with the Administrator.

The worksheet summarizes a carrier's revenues and is used to calculate its contribution to

the TRS Fund.

Section 254 of the Communications Act of 1934 requires providers of interstate

telecommunications services to contribute to the preservation and advancement of universal

service. The Commission established a federal universal service fund as a support

mechanism for telecommunications services in high cost rural areas and for certain

telecommunications services provided to schools, libraries and rural health care providers.

Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service, Report and Order, CC Docket No. 96-45,

FCC 97-157, 12 FCC Rcd 8776 (1997); Order on Reconsideration, FCC 97-246 (rel. July

10, 1997); Second Order on Reconsideration, FCC 97-253 (rel. July 18, 1997). Most

interstate telecommunications service providers are required to file a semi-annual USF

worksheet with the interim USF Administrator (NECA). The September 1997 worksheet

summarizes a carrier's revenues for the first half of 1997 and will be used by the

Administrator to calculate the carrier's contribution to the USF fund for the first half of 1998.

This publication should include all carriers that provided interstate

telecommunications services in 1996. Local telephone companies file both TRS and USF

worksheets because they provide interstate access services. Similarly, competitive access

providers, pay telephone operators and cellular telephone companies derive revenue from

interstate services and accordingly are carriers required to file both TRS fund and USF

worksheets.

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There are some differences between TRS filers and USF filers. A few carriers, such

as purely international carriers and carriers with minimal revenues, are required to file TRS

worksheets but need not file USF worksheets. Private carriers and shared tenant service

providers are required to file USF worksheets, but not TRS fund worksheets. In addition,

some carriers that have filed TRS worksheets in the past have subsequently merged,

reorganized, changed name, stopped offering interstate services, etc and so are no longer

required to file TRS or USF worksheets. Other carriers that went into business in the first

half of 1997 were exempt from filing a 1997 TRS worksheet. A small number of carriers

filed USF worksheets but are not yet in compliance with TRS filing requirements.

In the TRS and USF worksheets, each carrier has been asked to select a single

category that best describes its overall status even though it may provide more than one type

of service. The TRS Fund worksheet directs carriers to list themselves in one of the

following categories:

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Competitive Access Provider (CAP) or Competitive Local Exchange

Carrier (CLEC)

Cellular or Personal Communications Services (PCS) Carrier

Interexchange Carrier

Local Exchange Carrier (LEC)

Paging or other Mobile Service Carrier

Operator Service Provider (OSP)

Other Toll Service Provider

Pay Telephone Provider

Pre-paid Calling Card Provider

Toll Reseller

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following categories:

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Competitive Access Provider (CAP) or Competitive Local Exchange

Carrier (CLEC)

Cellular, Personal Communications Service (PCS) or Specialized

Mobile Radio (SMR) service providers (wireless telephony)

Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC)

Interexchange Carrier (IXC)

Local Reseller

Operator Service Provider (OSP)

Other Local

Other Mobile Service Carrier including SMRs that do not provide

wireless telephony

Other Toll Service Provider

Paging and messaging

Pay Telephone Provider

Private Service Provider

Pre-paid Calling Card Provider

Satellite Service Providers

Shared Tenant Service Provider

Toll Reseller

Wireless Data Service Provider

Figure 1 compares both classification systems and presents the number of current

interstate service providers using each system. At present, some carriers are not in both the

TRS and USF data bases. In such cases, the carriers have been assigned the most similar

carrier type code in the alternate system. Some carriers were reclassified following staff

research.

Table 1 is taken from Telecommunications Industry Revenue: TRS Fund Worksheet

Data, November 1997, which provides extensive data about the size and composition of the

telecommunications industry. Table 1 is based on data for TRS filers only and thus excludes

carriers that filed USF worksheets but not TRS Fund worksheets. The table includes some

carriers that filed 1997 TRS worksheets on April 26, 1997, but which have disappeared

because of merger, reorganization, name change, or leaving the business. Thus, the counts

in Table 1 are different than the counts in Figure 1.

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